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...bill already has nine co-sponsors on the council, and only seven would need to vote in favor of it for it to pass later this fall. But Consalvo said that he’s trying not to get too confident about the prospects of a bag-free Boston...
...largely controlled by the local families who have sold produce here for more than a century - to change a produce stall into a pasta store. "The merchants all have to agree to let a vendor sell something new," explains Ibars. "Out of the four hundred stall owners, one guy voted against us." He declines to explain how he and his partners convinced the holdout to change his vote...
...Last Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill, by a 20-1 vote, that would allow the Treasury to take action against China by lowering its standard for identifying currency distortion. Under existing law, the Treasury has had to prove that China intended to manipulate its currency. Under the bill, the Treasury would issue a report every six months on countries that maintain exchange rates that are "fundamentally misaligned" to the market value of their currencies, regardless of whether or not the government intended it for trade advantage. The bill also enables the Treasury to levy penalizing duties...
...Faith Vote...
...crowd was wooed but not quite won. "My heart is with Obama, but my brain is with Hillary," said Lourdes Diaz of Miami. "I want to be able to vote for him, but I just don't know yet." Which pretty much sums up the state of the Democratic presidential race in midsummer. It is weirdly static. In most presidential campaigns I've covered, someone has made a dramatic move one way or another by now--Howard Dean's upward whoosh in 2004, for example. "Yeah, and then I had that downward whoosh," Dean told me recently, laughing. "This race...